[OSGeo Africa] Batch conversion from shp to kml

[Nditsheni Matsheketsheke]

in qgis

go to selection and choose how you want to select them

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after selecting all points, go to layer, right click, save as, a new dialog
box will pop up named  save vector layer as

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change format from ESRI Shapefile to KML
then still in the same dialig box change encoding to save only selected
features

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then browse and save it in workspace
ok.

There you go

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> shp2kml is a product, you do realise?
>
> Presumably you mean you have a bunch of SHP files and want them in KML
> format but don't want to use shp2kml?
>
>
> Try ogr2ogr - using the command-line approach you should have zero
> difficulties doing it "in a snap"
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Zoltan
>
> On 2016-08-15 13:04, Mnqweno Mnyengeza wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> I need to convert approximately thirteen million  points *from shp2kml
> using QGIS*. I have already split the points into their respective
> provinces, districts and the lowest level of demarcation which is an
> enumeration area (EA) here at Statistics South Africa. The output file of
> the split is the sub-folder named the EA reference number and containing
> the points and polygon of that particular EA. I now need to batch process
> this conversion using QGIS batch file processor if any is available or any
> other free open source tool that can easily serve the purpose.
>
> Please assist
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Mnqweno Mnyengeza (Mr)
>
> Professional GIS Practitioner
> Geography
> 082 9048267 (Mobile)
> Statistics South Africa
>
>
>
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